Watching
Biggles: Adventures in Time
I liked the movie, but the main character was not well chosen in my point of view, and there is some gory scenes that didn’t need to be there at all. I read many Biggles books as a child, he inspired many boys to be good people, to fight for what is right, and to have a go even if it was dangerous.
One of the biggest issues of World War 2 was the bombing of cities and towns in Germany. The idea was to bomb the people so that they would force Hitler to stop. Jimmy Stewart and others came out of the war scarred for life for having been on bombing runs, knowing that all or some of their bombs killed women and children etc.
But looking back at the lives Hitlers armies caused, and the work of the Japanese, it is truly a horror story. If we don’t change society now its either going to happen again or God’s going to wipe the lands of the planet with stupid dumb people.
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Nuggets of Wisdom:
Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating – C Simon.
Remember that facing our problems or fears does deal with them and does answer questions and helps us form answers for the future to come. It is the courageous hopeful heart that makes progress in life.
A Lot Of Problems In The World Would Disappear If We Would Talk To Each Other And Not About Each Other – Author Unknown.
For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.
Sam Levenson.
Always believe. Always have hope. Before you even consider giving up, do for your own sake, try. Without hope there is only life. With hope we can live with the expectation of something better, something worthy and worth living for.
Not everyone alive is “Living”, they may be existing, but they are not “Living The Dream” that rests within their souls. They are just here on earth functioning, alive, and existing. You want a life that you wilkl look back on happily when you are an old soul, then live the dreams you have within you now.
Your perception of me is a reflection of you.
Say what you need to say, do what you need to do, be who you need to be, and live the way you need to live for you.
Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves – K Heiden.
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it – H S Yoder.
Self control is the ability to keep cool while somebody is making it hot for you – Anon.
One has to be courageous not to let oneself be carried along by the world’s march; one needs faith and will power to go cross-current – C Corretto.
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON . . . It is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrong doing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to
move on.
When people come into your life for a SEASON . . . Because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn, they bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
– Author Unknown.
STOP-BERATING YOURSELF FOR OLD MISTAKES.
We may love the wrong person and cry about the wrong things, but no matter how things go wrong, one thing is for sure, mistakes help us find the person and things that are right for us. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come. – Dudley Bengtson.
An interview with the Jenden Family from New Zealand. They sold a business they worked for years to build to live their dream of traveling the United States in an RV as a family. Here is their story of how and why they did it! Their courage and love for their family is so inspiring. They are truly living their good story!
Punishment and discipline sometimes feel the same to one on the receiving end! But the sharp difference can be seen in both the attitude and the goal of the one doing it. The attitude behind punishment is anger and indignation, and its goal is justice; the attitude behind discipline is love, and its goal is the benefit and development of the person. – Bob George.
An amazing thing happens when you get honest with yourself and start doing what you love, what makes you happy. You stop wishing for the weekend. You stop merely looking forward to special events. You begin to live in each moment and you start feeling like a human being. You just ride the wave that is life, with this feeling of contentment and joy. You move fluidly, steadily, calm and grateful. A veil is lifted, and a whole new perspective is born. – Author Unknown.
- “Be afraid of me but love me.”
For toxic parents, an emotional attack is synonymous with love and attention. In such families, kids know how to find out what mood their parents are in by the sound of dropped keys or by the scrape of footsteps. Such children live in constant fear and apprehension. These types of toxic parents often get offended if their kind actions are treated with suspicion. They claim,”I’ve done everything for you
and you’re still so ungrateful.” - “You must deal with adult problems but you still have no rights.”
In toxic families, parents share their responsibility with their children. For example, a child believes that it’s specifically their bad behaviour that makes their father consume alcohol to calm himself down.
Later, children will get dragged into adult scandals. Teenagers will be forced to listen to their parents’ complaints, adjust to a “complicated situation,” put themselves in their parents’ shoes, help, tolerate, and console. Unfortunately, in these cases, children have no right to express their opinion. - “Be the best but don’t forget that you’re not special.”
Narcissistic parents expect their children to perform at the highest level. However, all of the child’s achievements are taken for granted. Disparaging comments can truly ruin the lives of children because it makes them grow up believing that they’re always a disappointment to their parents. - “Open up to me but don’t be surprised at ridicule.”
Toxic parents force their children to be sincere and sometimes even make them feel guilty if they don’t want to share their feelings. Later, that same information is used against their children. There are 2 ways this can happen:
Relatives, neighbours, and other people are all aware of whatever the child has shared with their parents. And the parents really don’t see anything wrong with that.
A child gives their parents an opportunity to scold them or to add sarcastic comments.
- “You’re bad so don’t even try to become better.”
The lower a child’s self-esteem is, the easier it is to control them. Toxic parents discuss their child’s failures and flaws and, in most cases, they comment on their child’s appearance because it’s one of the touchiest subjects. If there are no “obvious flaws,” they just make them up.
Such parents instill an inferiority complex in their children and they don’t want to see their child try new things and succeed. Toxic people don’t want to have a successful child who demonstrates their willpower.
- “Improve yourself and forget about your plans for the future.”
Parents want their children to succeed but they don’t care how they’re going to do it. For example, they can expect their child to build a successful career just as long as they never leave the house.
A narcissistic parent will get excited about their child’s achievements for only 2 reasons:
They enjoy boasting about their success so that others envy them.
Successful children guarantee a better life for the parents.
Sometimes parents just remind children that there’s a huge distance between them and their cherished goals. - “Follow my instructions but blame yourself if you fail.”
In this case, parents treat their child like an object: they make their own plans and expect their children to follow along. By the way, they don’t care about the consequences of having such total control all the time. If something goes wrong, it’s not their fault. - “Go away but don’t leave me alone.”
In healthy families, parents help their kids move out and live their own life. Toxic parents never want to let their children go but they always point out that the house, the money, and the food belongs to them. Any options or objections from the children is ignored in such cases.
What do such parents really want? They want their obedient children to stay by their side!
- “Accept our help but stop exploiting us.”
These parents offer something that their children can actually do without but any refusal causes resentment. A child starts thinking, “My parents probably just want some company and want to feel needed.” So they accept the help, thank the parents, and offer something in return. But there’s no happy ending because the parents will always remind their children of that “favor” they did for them.
Kids turn into prisoners:
If they refuse their parents’ help. Children feel that it’s rude to decline a relative’s offer to help.
In case they accept their parents’ help. Children feel that they should be grateful to their parents for their support and must be ready to help at any moment.
- “Trust me but always keep an eye out.”
Private life? Personal space? Neither exist for children of toxic parents.
If you try to restrict access to your personal territory, parents accuse you of distrust. Even your own apartment or house won’t protect a grown child since these types of parents just use emergency spare keys. And their children must always answer all the questions — “Why didn’t you wash that cup?” or “Why did you waste money on that rubbish?” Such parents have no respect for the lives and the
personal decisions of their children.
– Brightside.
Please don’t let that voice in your head deceive you, you are capable, and even though you may be struggling a bit, know that your value is not in what others see in you, it is in how you see yourself and what you do in your life that is worthy.
I have had many lonely times, and people treated me bad over and over again. But in that loneliness I found comfort, hope, happiness and above all I found me!
Consider this. If you are even feeling really down, rejected, ignored and lonely then the issue is in the way people are reacting to you, your life etc. Only a dysfunctional society cannot deal with people who have issues, they are bringing you down instead of offering hope and lifting you up.
If you react to loneliness or feeling let down by others in a new positive way then you will build and grow from how they have treated you, you will show yourself and others that their lack of knowledge of your true worth is a mistake by them and it is their lack of vision that denies them seeing how amazing you can truly be.
Be positive, be self encouraging, you will shine as you have never shined before. Get stubborn, boost that self talk, you are as worthy as anyone else alive, believe that because it is true.
Your best hope is in you, your best friend. Seek all that is good within you that can bring out the best in you. Refuse to listen to the negatives going on in your mind and refusing to hear them, and then replacing them with something strong, encouraging, good and true.
Reverse the curse of a toxic dysfunctional society that gave you confusions and loneliness, and realise that what you need is not in this society, so bring it out in you what you need by giving yourself positive talk, encouragement, and look back and see all the amazing things that you have done since childhood, and see how you have progressed and what you have completed, and then refuse the
negative talk in your head. Listen to your self talk, listen to what you say to yourself. Consider how you think of yourself, think of how much your life would change if you thought better of yourself and if you encouraged yourself.
Know that you are not to blame for feeling this way. You are a result of a toxic society, time to change that and be a positive light in the world by making a positive stand, seeing who you could be, looking back at your childhood and remembering what you thought of life of you, what dreams you had, because now is a good a time as any to make those dreams come true.
Dysfunctional societies build weak people with weak foundations below them, and when we became adults we can lack confidence, lack hope. This is not your fault.
But now from this point on you can make better more positive choices that will suit your needs, keep you healthy, keep your mind active, positive and filled with hope.
You can seek a better life, better friends by being yourself, the person, who you always wished was in your life helping you and encouraging you as you grew up. You have a place in the world, a good place, and your worth will come out in your change and courageous new confidence.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
21-8-2018.
Revisiting this:
www.jamesmsandbrook.co.nz/the-genesis-project/
I have often been at a loss for words why people don’t “get it” when I mention our Human “connectively” as parts of nature – meaning that we are a part of nature, that nature is our natural environment, and that we fit into nature like a hand into a well fitting glove. Humans are nature. We don’t live in nature, “we are a part of nature because this is our natural state of being”, nature is home for us. This life of pushing nature aside and all that is natural for the human being, is very bad for our physical and mental health, we suffer the further from our natural state that we get.
The over-protective society that we live in has people being brought up so used to comforts that the comfort of the modern society and its “illusion” of being safe and secure, has people avoiding nature for the comfortable illusion of security and relaxation of the modern home.
An example is a discussion I read tonight on Facebook about air conditioning, heat pumps and various ways to remove moisture from the air in the modern house. Lots and lots of people claimed to be so happy with their heat pumps, artificial air and the like, and were completely oblivious to the fact that the life and their preferences are completely unnatural for the human animal.
But explaining that to them is pointless because they enjoy the illusion of security, their home comfort zone, and the the delusion that the illusion is life at its best for the human being. In other words they will proudly and defiantly defend their right to be where they are, because they do not see themselves as weak, submissive, conformers or to have sold their souls to “the easy life” which is daily killing them in the most unnatural ways such as disease, cancers, etc.
Me, on the other hand, has no additional heating other than one electric heater and a fireplace which I seldom ever use. On cold nights I dress warmly, use lots of blankets (I have an electric blanket that I never use) and I understand that we are a part of nature and that the modern day Comfort Zone thinking is Conformity and what keeps us weak in all ways, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Life like this is not uncomfortable, it is in fact healthy and comfortable.
All the modern mod-cons (the amenities and appliances characteristic of a well-equipped modern house that contribute to an easier and more comfortable way of life – Oxford Languages.), as they are called, are trappings to tempt us to stay mentally weak and submissive to society, meaning that we cannot and will not ever reach our full potential. according to many this is deliberate, but whether it is or is not, we, the human race are not living in our natural state and due to that we have become weak, submissive, easily led and we are breeding our young to be the same.
When you take wild animals such as a cat , dog or cattle, comfort the animal, feed it so it does not need to weather the storms of life to get food for itself and its young it becomes weak, easily led, submissive and loses its natural
What is not realized is that this comfort is the real wilderness, a place where we have become lost, lost our way, unable to find our own way back to our place in thee realm of things, lost our ability to forage, grow and cultivate, lost our true natural courage, confidence in the wild, ability to survive in nature as we used to do.
I often felt that when they mentioned that people were in the wilderness in the Bible it often meant that the people were modernized with all the comforts that brought forth mental weakness, submission and conformity.
The wilderness is when we are not in nature.
Pictures show the Garden of Eden as nature in its greenest state, growing, unkept, natural, and the two humans Adam and Eve living a wonderful life in this environment. Peace and harmony ensued and love was the cause.
The only offering for peace, love and harmony on Earth from God would be a natural state of being in our most natural environment as creatures of the planet, animals and having far superior intellect and spirituality than the other creatures.
Anything that causes destruction or to make this Garden of Eden environment toxic would not be a part of God’s idea of a better way to live for the human beings. And even if you removed all thought of God from the equation, since we are obviously nature, and nature is our obvious environment, then that is clearly the only place that we could be in that would make us happy, complete, without mental illness, and content to be alive.
An analogy could be a boat. made to float and travel on water is taken from the water and put on dry land. The boat can be lived in, used, but is not able to be used or to function as it was designed to do so because it is out of its natural environment. Its can function and be useful, but never as efficient or useful as it was designed to be.
The boats motor becomes useless because it is not needed any more, so it is always on stand by but never wanted.
Take the human animal out of nature, make them work for others, feed them cheap food, chemical water supplies, make them very comfortable warm and dry, entertain them, and they don’t want to return to their place of origin, their Garden of Eden, their natural place in the world.
The Human’s Spiritual Nature is much like the boats motor. It is there, all our spiritual natural senses, warning systems, the small voice within, our gut feelings, all there, but people feel that they don’t need them anymore and in many cases refuse to believe that they even exist. And like the boat, because we don’t use our Spiritual Nature we are only half capable of living and functioning with half our abilities.
The boat of the water can turn from danger and head upstream, but alas not so when stranded on the shore.
The human being can use its Spiritual Awareness and abilities to help them cope, get through life, sense dangers, search, seek and find, but when not used it becomes like the boats motor on land, there but unable to help those who refuse to develop or even believe in it.
Weakness is never a strength, but to those conformed into the status quo their weakness will be honoured, protected, longed for, and defended as if their very lives depended on it.
“We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
A ship or boat without its sails or engine just aimlessly floats guided by the current, it can use its rudder to steer, but only in the direction that it aimlessly floats in.
The human being operating on only half its capabilities and in the wrong environment is the same.
We just drift aimlessly from relationship to relationships, job to job, friends to friends, clinging desperately to toxic family members, and honouring dysfunctional parents.
They day that what we don’t know won’t hurt us, but in this case what we don’t know is killing us in the most unnatural ways ending a stressful, depressing, dysfunctional life.
By large a dysfunctional society is immature, and a quick look at the progression of immaturity in the music industry is a good measurement. from the 1950’s to now the bad language, sexual content, punks, the weird behaviour, piercing’s, etc, its an obvious sign that we have lost grasp of who we really are as human beings by distancing ourselves from our natural state as part of nature.
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For The Kingdom to come to be as God realized it, it would be a Return to Eden. A project like Noah’s realization that society was messed up, his desire to show others that they were lost to help them and then finally to only follow God and Return to Eden as God promised him.
I believe that this is what Jesus did. History shows that at that time the world was decidedly vicious and corrupt and then all of a sudden it changes to gentle and natural. Jesus’ teachings were to get people back to God, back to nature, back to The kingdom which Jesus repeatedly said was “already here”, a return to Eden and the old ways of which we were naturally formed for.
The only way that the human being can be happy, at peace, in love and complete is in the right environment operating as we were born to do, living side by side with the wildlife in peace and harmony.
How could this practically happen, how can God bring back what we have all lost?
How can we have the kingdom back?
The genders have become weak and corrupt, dysfunctional, weak minded and toxic, bringing up their young to be the same.
The genders have become submissive and weak to the lusts or their bodies and the egos of their minds.
The genders are living and acting unnaturally causing themselves mental illness and personal needless suffering, which they then pass on to others and their own children.
Years ago in a sermon a Pastor said how Jesus had to go through hell on Earth to discover how people felt, what they experienced and to come up with new ways to deal with the corruption of modern people.
Note that throughout the Bible and even in other books, along comes a Prophet, someone who helps bring the people back to God, but first goes thorough much hell first.
The job of the Prophet is to go through what others have gone through so that the Prophet, through his connection with God, can help people back to God. A female would clearly help the Prophet, by giving the female point of view. In order for her to do this, she too, (like I believe Mary did), was brought up in a very unholy home, was immoral and feminist, and had to go through her own mental illness, and personal hell, to find God and then help women get back to God.
The religious, always when there is a Prophet, is lost in its conformity to society, traditions, pride, division and dependence on money for survival, and not God. They are little help to the Prophet or God.
Why Does This All Happen and Why Is This All Repeated?
Every so many thousands of years the human race becomes lost and walks away from its natural human state as Spiritual and a part of nature, and in doing so becomes immature, toxic and brings up the new generations the same, and so is on a steady path or destruction.
The Prophet, is a normal human being that God allows his life to be hell on earth from childhood, so that he can experience child abuse, abusive parents, violence, horror, become an adult and struggle with depression, suicidal thoughts, abuse from others, narcissists, etc, and then finally find God and get his life right.
Once that is done he is introduced to his future female companion who rejects him outright, is a bad sort, feminist, will be a bad mother, abusive to whoever she marries etc. She too finds God, and changes her life with God’s guidance, and in time, a long time, finally realizes that she belongs to him and he to her.
Together they can bring back salvation, peace, love, harmony and bring people back to their true self and back to God.
They were a representation of what is bad in the world, having changed and become experts on how to change and help others back to God as they became believers in God, natural living, empathy and the like, thus bring people to The Kingdom, the Garden of Eden that we were supposed to live life in.
When you try to explain this to Immature and toxic people, they cannot understand because they are immature and toxic, dysfunction is who they are, how they act, what they do, and how they think. If you are on a mental level higher than them they won’t “get you” or understand you.
The outcome to trying to get through to immature toxic people is a refusal to comprehend what you are telling them, and if you keep it up enough they will just debate the common sense and logic out of you and you will submit to their immature bully behaviour and not act.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Sunday, 13 December 2020, 11:38:04 am.
https://www.jamesmsandbrook.co.nz/Couragous.html
Working on this:
https://www.jamesmsandbrook.co.nz/if-i-were-mayor/